Roland Ratings for the '05-06 Rookies

We'll be doing a number of features looking at past drafts and current Roland Ratings, but we'll start if off by looking at the numbers for the 2005-06 season rookies (data includes games through March 12th).

PER Difference

On Court/Off Court

Roland

Pk

Tm

Player

Min

PER

Opp

Net

On

Off

Net

Rating

1

MIL

Andrew Bogut

59%

16.1

18.2

-2.0

-0.8

-2.9

+2.1

-0.9

2

ATL

Marvin Williams

48%

12.3

19.2

-6.9

-3.9

-6.2

+2.3

-4.3

3

*UTA

Deron Williams

55%

11.6

17.5

-5.8

-1.7

-4.8

+3.1

-3.3

4

NOK

Chris Paul

70%

23.8

16.3

+7.5

-2.4

+1.3

-3.7

+4.3

5

CHA

Raymond Felton

56%

14.1

14.5

-0.3

-2.9

-6.8

+3.9

+0.9

6

*POR

Martell Webster

20%

9.0

22.4

-13.4

-12.3

-7.0

-5.2

-11.1

7

TOR

Charlie Villanueva

56%

18.3

17.4

+0.9

-0.3

-4.9

+4.6

+2.0

8

NY

Channing Frye

50%

19.0

15.5

+3.5

-0.8

-11.0

+10.2

+5.4

9

GS

Ike Diogu

23%

14.7

18.1

-3.5

-4.2

-0.6

-3.6

-3.5

10

LAL

Andrew Bynum

8%

9.0

17.8

-8.7

-4.6

+2.3

-6.9

-8.2

11

ORL

Fran Vazquez

12

LAC

Yaroslav Korolev

4%

5.6

7.3

-1.8

-4.0

+2.5

-6.5

-3.1

13

*CHA

Sean May

13%

16.3

20.1

-3.8

-3.0

-4.9

+1.9

-2.2

14

MIN

Rashad McCants

29%

12.9

16.8

-3.9

-5.8

+1.0

-6.8

-4.8

15

NJ

Antoine Wright

10%

0.5

15.7

-15.2

-10.0

+0.9

-10.9

-13.9

16

*TOR

Joey Graham

36%

9.9

19.0

-9.1

-4.3

-1.2

-3.1

-7.4

17

IND

Danny Granger

42%

14.6

16.0

-1.4

-1.8

+5.6

-7.4

-3.1

18

BOS

Gerald Green

2%

13.4

23.6

-10.2

+0.0

-1.5

+1.5

-6.9

19

MEM

Hakim Warrick

19%

12.7

21.0

-8.3

-4.5

+3.6

-8.0

-8.2

20

*DEN

Julius Hodge

1%

2.5

17.9

-15.4

+3.2

+0.9

+2.3

-10.3

21

*PHO

Nate Robinson

34%

11.3

16.8

-5.5

-1.7

-8.1

+6.4

-2.1

22

DEN

Jarrett Jack

40%

11.5

15.5

-4.0

-11.2

-6.0

-5.2

-4.4

23

SAC

Francisco Garcia

37%

11.2

10.7

+0.5

+0.7

+1.6

-0.9

+0.1

24

HOU

Luther Head

52%

11.0

16.1

-5.1

-0.1

-1.4

+1.3

-3.3

25

SEA

Johan Petro

29%

10.7

21.9

-11.2

-5.1

-4.0

-1.1

-8.3

26

DET

Jason Maxiell

3%

5.8

22.5

-16.7

-33.9

+8.5

-42.4

-24.0

27

*POR

Linas Kleiza (Den)

13%

14.9

17.1

-2.1

+0.2

+1.0

-0.8

-1.7

28

SA

Ian Mahinmi

29

MIA

Wayne Simien

8%

10.5

18.6

-8.1

-6.6

+5.1

-11.6

-9.1

30

*NY

David Lee

25%

15.8

19.6

-3.8

-4.3

-6.5

+2.2

-2.1

31

ATL

Salim Stoudamire

40%

13.5

14.0

-0.6

-3.9

-5.9

+2.0

+0.1

32

*LAC

Daniel Ewing

27%

8.3

18.2

-9.9

-2.1

+3.9

-6.0

-8.8

33

NOK

Brandon Bass

5%

9.3

10.8

-1.5

-7.6

-1.0

-6.6

-3.0

34

UTA

CJ Miles

4%

9.1

20.6

-11.5

+8.9

-3.6

+12.6

-4.6

35

POR

Ricky Sanchez

36

MIL

Ersan Ilyasova

37

*LAL

Ronny Turiaf

2%

10.8

24.5

-13.6

+0.9

+1.7

-0.9

-10.0

38

*ORL

Travis Diener

8%

14.1

21.5

-7.4

-9.8

-2.3

-7.5

-7.4

39

LAL

Von Wafer

2%

-1.3

19.9

-21.2

-16.5

+2.2

-18.7

-20.5

40

GS

Monta Ellis

14%

9.8

15.5

-5.6

+1.2

-1.8

+3.1

-3.1

41

*TOR

Roko Ukic

42

*GS

Chris Taft

5%

16.2

18.1

-2.0

+3.3

-1.6

+5.0

43

NJ

Mile Ilic

44

*ORL

Andriuskevicius (Cle)

0%

16.5

4.5

+12.0

+56.5

+1.6

+54.9

+24.3

45

*PHI

Louis Williams

3%

9.3

21.0

-11.7

-15.8

-0.8

-15.0

-12.6

46

IND

Erazem Lorbek

47

MIN

Bracey Wright

0%

10.8

38.4

-27.6

+12.7

-1.0

+13.8

-15.8

48

*SEA

MickaŽl Gelabale

49

WAS

Andray Blatche

4%

14.4

20.2

-5.8

+7.2

+1.4

+5.8

-2.5

50

BOS

Ryan Gomes

25%

15.7

15.0

+0.6

+1.0

-2.3

+3.3

+1.4

51

*UTA

Robert Whaley

7%

8.2

20.4

-12.2

-10.0

-2.6

-7.4

-10.8

52

DEN

Axel Hervelle

53

*BOS

Orien Greene

30%

6.5

18.7

-12.2

-4.6

-0.1

-4.5

-10.0

54

*NY

Dijon Thompson (Pho)

1%

23.7

1.4

+22.3

-12.4

+6.7

-19.1

+10.5

55

SEA

Lawrence Roberts

5%

12.1

21.4

-9.3

-1.6

+2.2

-3.8

-7.7

56

DET

Amir Johnson

0%

-18.2

-13.7

-4.6

-49.4

+7.4

-56.9

-19.5

57

*PHO

Marcin Gortat

58

*TOR

Uros Slokar

59

*ATL

Cenk Akyol

60

*DET

Alex Acker

0%

-30.8

42.1

-72.9

-204.9

+7.7

-212.6

-112.8

So with our wonderful color coding, the positive 'roland rating' players are highlighted in green, the slightly negative white, and the negatives of -4 or more are in blue. Clearly guys with minimal playing time should have their ratings disregarded since you need a decent sample of meaninful minutes to make any kind of judgement. It's also worth noting a lot of rookies do improve over the course of the season.

For some leaderboards on different measures, you'll find:
[Minimum 15% of team minutes played]

So is Chris Paul the runaway rookie of the year? You could argue that Channing Frye has the better Roland Rating to this point, but we like to take into account the playing time, and if you multiply the Min% by the Roland Rating, it looks like this:

Steal of the draft to this point? That would appear to be Ryan Gomes who sports the fourth best rating, and fifth best "impact" above, while being drafted #50! On the other hand it's hard to talk of busts at this stage since a number of guys were picked with the understanding that it might be several years before any kind of payoff.

Still if you're looking at the four college seniors taken with Roland Ratings of -6 or below, and also 15% of the playing time, then you're perhaps concerned about their prospects of sticking in the league: